Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 09:43:30 -0500 From: lasseter@chemvx.chem.tamu.edu (Lasseter Benjamin) To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg3364$foo@default> Subject: Coloration
>A thought about the baking soda controversy - I planted some acid-loving docks
>in some dirt that included chalk, and their leaves became flushed with
>red. My
>guess is that if the quantity of baking soda is too small to kill the CPs
>(if that is
>what it will do), then it might well enhance the colour of CPs.
Does the enhancement of the red colour mean that there is a loss of
chlorophyll or that there are elevated levels of carotenes?
Benjamin F. Lasseter
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